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Journal by turgid
Which LISP should I learn? Years ago I read about Scheme and wrote some hello world level code. I learned about lambda functions and currying. I also looked at racket. A few years ago, much of my day job involved the JVM and I was getting sick of Java so I got a book on Clojure, which is a very nice language, but I never wrote any.
A few days ago I downloaded and built the latest version of DrRacket.
Should I go straight to Haskell? Or what about other functional languages? Is Erlang worth a look?
I need something stimulating to distract my brain from the mundane nature of everyday life, and mediocre programming languages.
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Hand me a pair of leather pants and a CASIO keyboard -- I'm living for today!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by quietus on Sunday November 28 2021, @01:34PM
I support the advice of another comment, of going out in real life and do something there; on the other hand, it seems like you'd like to still do some (interesting) hands-on programming, as your day to day job currently makes this impossible.
So my advice: why not phone one of your local schools, make contact with whoever teaches informatics there, and ask them what they need/want for course notes [in programming, obviously]. You'll find that most of them, if not all, have written their own: which takes a lot of time (and really learns you the language too).
Where I live, and as a former teacher, I can tell you that the official teaching handbooks insist on only examples out of accounting. So, no programming of robots, space flight, games or anything which might cause the slightest whiff of coolness & excitement with pupils.
I suggest you try to change that a little.
If you want to continue along the Lisp road -- learning some new programming paradigms -- I suggest you start with Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! first, then follow up with Land of Lisp, both from No Starch Press; after that, and on a more serious note, you can tackle Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Abelson, Sussman, Sussman).